IT leaders are under pressure to transform the digital workplace and supercharge employee productivity with AI. But as security threats evolve, they also need to transform their defenses to make sure nothing stops their progress. In our latest Work Reborn edition, we surveyed more than 600 IT leaders worldwide to outline a path for evolving your defenses and embedding AI in the heart of your cybersecurity architecture.
IT leaders are very focused on their Gen AI initiatives, and not so focused on how to secure them or the potential threat vectors that arise from them.
New Risks Call for New Approaches
Businesses must upgrade their capabilities to protect their most valuable assets against these threats:
- Model poisoning/data poisoning
- AI model manipulation
- AI data privacy leakage
- Over-permissioned AI access
- AI adversarial inputs
- AI-driven malware
- Denial of service via AI workload exhaustion
- AI hallucinations and misinformation
- Data leakage via AI applications
- Shadow AI usage
- AI supply chain risks
- Bias and ethical risks leading to regulatory non-compliance
- AI-powered brute-force attacks
Mitigate External & Internal Threats
For criminal threats the report recommends:
- Re-evaluating your security system for clarity of your current defensive abilities.
- Reduce human vulnerabilities through training using scenario-based simulations and reinforced behavioral tactics to identify sophisticated AI threats.
- Outpace threats with AI-native sensemaking that can translate real-time, cross-domain signals into intelligent, coordinated responses.
For in-house threats the report recommends:
- Establishing clear AI usage polices that guide employees away from risky behavior, such as entering sensitive information into a public AI system.
- Auditing access rights to ensure that AI systems and employees can only access the data they need.
- Securing your AI development lifecycle with established internal controls and checks that prevent manipulation of AI systems.
To respond effectively, security teams must move beyond using generative AI as a support tool and fully embed it into their analytics, workflow, and security operations center decision-making processes.
EVENTS
Navigating AI Risk With Lenovo at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo
AI is reshaping how we work, but it is also raising new questions of trust, governance, and security. At Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Lenovo leaders will explore how organizations can embrace AI’s potential while managing its risks, offering a clearer path toward resilient, future-ready enterprises.
